John Wayne's world transnational masculinity in the fifties / [electronic resource] :
by Russell Meeuf.
- 1st ed.
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013.
- x, 213 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: reexamining John Wayne -- The emergence of "John Wayne": Red River, global masculinity, and Wayne's romantic anxieties -- Exile, community, and wandering: international migration and the spatial dynamics of modernity in John Ford's cavalry trilogy -- John Wayne's cold war: mass tourism and the anticommunist crusade -- John Wayne's body: technicolor and 3-D anxieties in Hondo and the Searchers -- John Wayne's Africa: European colonialism versus U.S. global leadership in Legend of the lost -- John Wayne's Japan: international production, global trade -- And John Wayne's diplomacy in the Barbarian and the Geisha -- Men at work in tight spaces: masculinity, professionalism, and politics in Rio Bravo and the Alamo -- Conclusion: the man who shot Liberty Valance and nostalgia for John Wayne's world.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780292747470 (electronic bk.)
Wayne, John, 1907-1979.
Motion picture industry--History--United States--20th century. Masculinity in motion pictures. Motion pictures and globalization. Nineteen fifties.